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Join two of the leading educators in manual therapy, bodywork, and massage therapy, as they delve into the most intriguing issues, questions, research, and client conditions that hands-on practitioners face. Stimulate your thinking with imaginative conversations, tips, and interviews related to the somatic arts and sciences.
Episodes
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
What are cervicogenic headaches? Are they even a thing, and if so, why are they particularly amenable to manual therapy and massage? Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe discuss these questions, and share some self-care tips for you and your clients. Download the handout with detailed episode notes, techniques and tests from http://a-t.tv/ttp-cgh/
Episode topics include:
- What kinds of headaches CAN manual therapy help with?
- What’s the controversy around cervicogenic headaches?
- What kinds of self-care help?
Get the handout: a-t.tv/ttp-cgh/ or get the full transcript at Til or Whitney's sites!
Resources and references discussed in this episode:
- Toby Hall, Kathy Briffa & Diana Hopper (2008) Clinical Evaluation of Cervicogenic Headache: A Clinical Perspective, Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy, 16:2, 73-80, DOI: 10.1179/106698108790818422
- Whitney Lowe’s site: AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com
- Til Luchau’s site: Advanced-Trainings.com
Sponsor Offers:
- Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on booksofdiscovery.com.
- ABMP: save $24 on new membership at abmp.com/thinking.
- Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at handspringpublishing.com.
About Whitney Lowe | About Til Luchau | Email Us
(The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies: bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedic, sports massage, physical therapy, osteopathy, yoga, strength and conditioning, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.)
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
What makes taking care of ourselves so hard? Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe dissect the difficulties, and share their favorite excuses for not putting their own care first.
Episode topics include:
- The five key self-care behaviors;
- The date we’re most likely to give up on our resolutions;
- Getting “internal bipartisanship” around your own self-care initiatives.
Get the full transcript at Til or Whitney's sites!
Resources and references discussed in this episode:
- Stress in America™ report on caregivers’ self-care
- Whitney Lowe’s site: AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com
- Til Luchau’s site: Advanced-Trainings.com
Sponsor Offers:
- Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on booksofdiscovery.com.
- ABMP: save $24 on new membership at abmp.com/thinking.
- Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at handspringpublishing.com.
About Whitney Lowe | About Til Luchau | Email Us
(The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies: bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedic, sports massage, physical therapy, osteopathy, yoga, strength and conditioning, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.)
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe review highlights and take-aways from the star-studded first season of their acclaimed podcast (yea, right).
Most-Downloaded:
03 Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Causes, Controversies, and Considerations
15 Robert Schleip: Talking to Fascia, Changing the Brain, 20 Years Later
07 Scoliosis and Manual Therapy
11 Stretching the Tissues, or the Truth?
12 The Cytokine Storm of COVID-19
First Season, by Episode:
01,02 The Back Story, Pt. 1, Pt 2
03 Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Causes, Controversies, and Considerations
04,08 Key Challenges Facing Our Field, Pt. 1, Pt 2
05 Documentation and Electronic Health Records (with Diana Thompson)
06 Tendons and Tendinopathies
07 Scoliosis and Manual Therapy
09 What the Heck is Descending Modulation?
10 When Does the Tissue Matter?
11 Stretching the Tissues, or the Truth?
12 The Cytokine Storm of COVID-19
13 Inflammation: Hands-On
14 Do We Keep Doing This?
15 Robert Schleip: Talking to Fascia, Changing the Brain, 20 Years Later
16 Benny Vaughn: Black Lives Matter.
17 Who Charts our Path?
18 Ann Blair Kennedy and Kemi Balogun: Project COPE
19 What About Risk? (cohost: Ruth Werner)
20 A Pain in the Neck: Cervical Challenges and Strategies
21 My Aching (Upper) Back: Thoracic Spine Pain
22 Gil Hedley: Fascia, Fuzz and Furor
23 Do Expectations Shape Results? Mark Bishop
24 Plantar Foot Pain Crash Course
25 Psoas Work: Is it Safe? Is it Necessary?
26 Zoga: Movement for Manual Therapists (with Wojtek Cackowski)
27 The Little Man in Your Brain: The Homunculus
28 Advanced Credentialing and Massage as Healthcare (with Cal Cates)
Get the full transcript at Til or Whitney's sites!
- Whitney Lowe’s site: AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com
- Til Luchau’s site: Advanced-Trainings.com
Sponsor Offers:
- Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on booksofdiscovery.com.
- ABMP: save $24 on new membership at abmp.com/thinking.
- Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at handspringpublishing.com.
About Whitney Lowe | About Til Luchau | Email Us
(The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies: bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedic, sports massage, physical therapy, osteopathy, yoga, strength and conditioning, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.)
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Whitney Lowe talks with Cal Cates, executive director of Healwell. They tackle the challenging issues of how to recognize advanced training and the challenges of integrating massage into the healthcare system.
Episode topics include:
- Why is advanced credentialing important for us?
- What are some of the big challenges we face when attempting to be part of the healthcare system?
- Who is ultimately responsible for advanced credentialing?
Get the full transcript at Til or Whitney's sites!
Resources and references discussed in this episode:
- Healwell: https://www.healwell.org/
- Whitney Lowe’s site: AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com
- Til Luchau’s site: Advanced-Trainings.com
Sponsor Offers:
- Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on booksofdiscovery.com.
- ABMP: save $24 on new membership at abmp.com/thinking.
- Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at handspringpublishing.com.
About Whitney Lowe | About Til Luchau | Email Us
(The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies: bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedic, sports massage, physical therapy, osteopathy, yoga, strength and conditioning, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.)
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Til Luchau and Whitney Lowe discuss the most famous (yet, unreplicated) illustration in neuroscience, the sensorimotor homunculus, which purports to show the proportion of the brain dedicated to each body part. Is it accurate?
Episode topics include:
- Is the cortical homunculus a map, or the territory?
- How did it come about? Penfield's methods and limitations.
- How might this all apply to manual therapy and massage?
Get the full transcript at Til or Whitney's sites!
Resources and references discussed in this episode:
- Catani, Marco. 2017. “A Little Man of Some Importance.” Brain 140 (11): 3055–61. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx270.
- Schabrun, Siobhan M., Edith L. Elgueta-Cancino, and Paul W. Hodges. 2017. “Smudging of the Motor Cortex Is Related to the Severity of Low Back Pain:” SPINE 42 (15): 1172–78. https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0000000000000938.
- Whitney Lowe’s site: AcademyOfClinicalMassage.com
- Til Luchau’s site: Advanced-Trainings.com
Sponsor Offers:
- Books of Discovery: save 15% by entering "thinking" at checkout on booksofdiscovery.com.
- ABMP: save $24 on new membership at abmp.com/thinking.
- Handspring Publishing: save 20% by entering “TTP” at checkout at handspringpublishing.com.
About Whitney Lowe | About Til Luchau | Email Us
Episode image from a sculpture by Sharon Price-James (public domain image).
(The Thinking Practitioner Podcast is intended for professional practitioners of manual and movement therapies: bodywork, massage therapy, structural integration, chiropractic, myofascial and myotherapy, orthopedic, sports massage, physical therapy, osteopathy, yoga, strength and conditioning, and similar professions. It is not medical or treatment advice.)